Kneading
['ni:diŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Knead
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Examples
- Grape juice mixed with millet ferments quickly and strongly, and the Romans learned to use this mixture for bread raising, kneading a very small amount of it through the dough. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He had been kneading a small mass for the purpose. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Among modern devices in the laundry, worked by hand, is, first, the _washing-machine_, in which the principle is adapted of rolling over or kneading the clothes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- While it is being cooked in these large kettles sugar is added, and as soon as the gum is done it is placed in a kneading machine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Crude chicle is obtained by simple boiling and evaporation of the milk, accompanied by frequent kneading. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- And this proved to be correct, for, after a prolonged kneading and rolling, the mass changed into a cohesive, stringy, homogeneous putty. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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